On a blustery March day the open stones of Knockmany's tomb stand beside a whitewashed thatched cottage on the hill, its smoke torn sideways, above the Clogher Valley.

Ulaid · Ulster

Cnoc mBáine

Knockmany · Co. Tyrone

Fionn and Oonagh’s windy hill.

Open it on the full site There it is marked on the map of the five fifths, where the road of a tale can be traced.

The name means “Báine’s hill” and is recorded as early as 772. On the summit is a real Neolithic passage tomb, known as Annia’s Cove, its carved stones protected since 1959. William Carleton, who grew up nearby, set his tale of Fionn, Oonagh and the giant Cucullin here.

In the tales

Fionn and the Giant’s Causeway The strongest giant in Ireland is coming for Fionn. Fionn’s wife has a plan, a cradle and twenty-one iron griddles.

Sources

Each tale above lists the sources it is retold from. Every source the site draws on is listed on the full site.